6. Last point: normally you don't have back channels with a country you have normal diplomatic relations with.
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Replying to @HeerJeet
You realize we have at least three back channels to Russia, at least one since 1963.
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Replying to @ActualFlatticus @HeerJeet
Obama added another in 2013 specifically for cyberattacks to be deconflicted. Reagan added one in '88. The other was a telex, then a fax.
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Replying to @ActualFlatticus @HeerJeet
Now it's a secure computer network between the white house and the kremlin.
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Replying to @ActualFlatticus
Sigh.I don't think you understand what a back channel is.
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Replying to @HeerJeet
It's a secondary, usually covert, route for passing information between two parties.
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Replying to @ActualFlatticus @HeerJeet
We literally have a secure, secret computer network Obama used last Halloween to contact Putin about potential election hacking.
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Replying to @ActualFlatticus @HeerJeet
If the Moscow-Washington Hotline isn't a back channel, then neither would be using Russian facilities to contact Kislyak.
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Replying to @ActualFlatticus @HeerJeet
here's what you're saying: 'If an official communications channel [the hotline] isn't a backchannel, then an illegal channel isn't either.'
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Replying to @FERALROBOTS @HeerJeet
And what gives you the idea it would be illegal for Trump's transition team to engage in diplomacy?
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In America you normally have one government at a time.
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Replying to @HeerJeet @FERALROBOTS
And yet when Hillary met with el-Sisi six weeks before, not a peep. How odd.
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